That rarest of rare things, a book of Japanese
folklore written by an actual Japanese scholar, and not a Western
Nihonophile. Unfortunately, because of this, Kitsune is hampered
by an extraordinarily awkward and sometimes outright bad translation,
which makes the writing mawkish and clunky. Nozaki also comes to a number of unorthodox conclusions (such as that sex with a fox always hurts) and doesn't make a clear distinction between mainstream Japanese beliefs and beliefs that appear in a single source (such as the idea that foxes create will o' the wisps with their breath rather than with their tails). Still, Kitsune
is the collection of Japanese fox tales.

An English version of the story of Kuzunoha,
as written by a Japanese poet for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
in 1913. The story is different from the standard telling in that
the fox takes the place of the real Kuzunoha in order to outwit
Kuzunoha's enemies and then take Kuzunoha's husband.

A retelling of the story of the Killing Stone,
composed as a song for the koto. This version of Tamamo no Mae's
story connects Tamamo no Mae with the legendary Chinese dragon-queen
Pao Sze, who toppled
King Yu Wang of Chou in 771 BCE.

Several translations and a detailed discussion
of Basho Matsuo's late 17th-century poem "Narrow Road to the
Deep North," a travel diary in which he visited the famous
Killing Stone where Tamamo no Mae was trapped.

Foxes in Noh Plays

Sesshouseki ("The Killing Stone")

A retelling of "Tamamonomae." Translated
in Basil Hall Chamberlin, The Classical Poetry of Japan (London:
Trubner,1880), "The Death-Stone" (Sesshouseki).